Force Era is the setting of the movie, the 4th version of The World. Black Box as in the actual Epitaph world Lara entered that existed within Fragment. Her voice bleeds over into Fragment and ends up inspiring Balmung and W.B. Yeats.

Keyaki wrote:Clones?

Yea, I'm lost.

The Sophia System was created by using the remains of the Akashic Records to gather up Aura's fragments and mass produce her.

Personally I wanted to put this on the first page, it's only in every article about this, but everyone in the American fandom is so squeamish about spoilers and no one's watched my video...

That sounds neat actually or were you referring to what Geist was working on. All I can remember is that ALTIMIT released a virus to promote Sophia. Can you post a link to the video. I thought the article was just a brief overview of Aura's history.

Force Era is the setting of the movie, the 4th version of The World. Black Box as in the actual Epitaph world Lara entered that existed within Fragment. Her voice bleeds over into Fragment and ends up inspiring Balmung and W.B. Yeats.

Keyaki wrote:Clones?

Yea, I'm lost.

The Sophia System was created by using the remains of the Akashic Records to gather up Aura's fragments and mass produce her.

Personally I wanted to put this on the first page, it's only in every article about this, but everyone in the American fandom is so squeamish about spoilers and no one's watched my video...

That sounds neat actually or were you referring to what Geist was working on. All I can remember is that ALTIMIT released a virus to promote Sophia. Can you post a link to the video. I thought the article was just a brief overview of Aura's history.

Yea, because I have no idea who Sophia is considering I haven't seen Quantum.

It's not explained in Quantum. Sophia's appearance in Quantum is more like Skeith's appearance in SIGN--a random cameo. Her origin is hinted at in the stuff that came with Link and confirmed in the recent articles about the movie like the Famitsu one with all the smartphone images. Not finding the link at the moment...

In other news LOTS of new movie info. Canard is now a major guild, TaN was recreated by Pirochio and Eta. Medic Union was replaced by... Team-C.U.R.E.? There's a map of "The World" (also known as "Alba") showing where everything is. There are 34 classes. The movie already looks like a better game than Link.

The last one is called "Gathering Light" by KOKIA. A lot of things have changed since Link came out--Sayaka Aida, the standard voice of Kite, was swapped out as Sora's VA in favor of star power, David speaks in Kansai-ben now (although both these voices in Link could have just been placeholders never intended to be final), and again in favor of star power they got KOKIA to do the main song--but nevertheless the song from the first teaser is so good I'd imagine they're still using it. Link's soundtrack was amazing in the way it mixed LieN and outside groups.

The new Haseo could be the actual Haseo, I mean, his face is part of Canard's logo. Or it could be a new player like Sora...

Beautiful, it always gives me that calm feeling, I cant wait for more, anyway back on the game, I assume the combat mechanics would be the same? Or is it different? I haven't really played anything but link.

If the gameplay of the nextgen game is the same as Link, fans are going to burn down CC2. I would bet good money that this game will be almost nothing like Link. I'm hoping it's a lot more like G.U. which had by far the best gameplay. If they combine that with better ally control, the main thing the first game had going for it (because there was nothing else to do but press "circle") we'll be in business!

....That said, I'll be the first to set forth the idea that this game is some kind of Link2, and that Haseo in the screenshots is past Haseo/a Twilight Knight. That would also explain why it doesn't take place in FORCE:ERA--no Akashic Records. But that still doesn't mean the gameplay has to suck, does it?

Kuukai wrote:....That said, I'll be the first to set forth the idea that this game is some kind of Link2, and that Haseo in the screenshots is past Haseo/a Twilight Knight. That would also explain why it doesn't take place in FORCE:ERA--no Akashic Records. But that still doesn't mean the gameplay has to suck, does it?

If the gameplay of the nextgen game is the same as Link, fans are going to burn down CC2. I would bet good money that this game will be almost nothing like Link. I'm hoping it's a lot more like G.U. which had by far the best gameplay. If they combine that with better ally control, the main thing the first game had going for it (because there was nothing else to do but press "circle") we'll be in business!

Damn it. Well the movie is out today. I hope it goes well. Matsuyama would not confirm that the main character was the same Haseo we know as Misaki because it isn't. Fine then I claim BST, Ryo working in data management, Skeith, Phantoms or any use of the virus core being collected by Zelkova. As for Canard's Ship Kite, don't they need an epitaph user or some one that can channel that? I know Hiroshi proposed that the technology would be available by 2128 but isn't this a big leap?

For those interested in getting ahold of the movie soundtrack it can be found in yesasia.com for pre-order by searching ".hack movie", there is an ending song disc and either the regular or limited edition OST to choose from ^_^